Re: [linux-audio-user] Sound servers conflict

From: Christoph Eckert <mchristoph.eckert@email-addr-hidden-online.de>
Date: Tue Feb 08 2005 - 23:30:12 EET

> Regarding alsa dmix, I don't know the technology, but can
> it solve the principle problem of two programs using
> different sound servers? As I understand it, the programs
> are using sound server API's and not  ALSA API's so if two
> sound server's can't coexist right, no fix in ALSA level
> can help.

you can stack soundservers, but most often you'll not manage
to run them competively in parallel, except you use DMIX or
you have a special card which supports hardware mixing. Most
consumer cards do not support this.

 Best regards

    ce
Received on Wed Feb 9 00:02:09 2005

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